Lisbon
LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's conservative president announced Monday he is ratifying a law allowing gay marriage in the predominantly Catholic country.
FATIMA, Portugal - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday offered comfort to those enduring hardship, telling some 400,000 pilgrims at the Fatima shrine that suffering is not in vain.
LISBON - Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday declared the Catholic Church was in a process of learning how to live with "other truths" while continuing to proclaim the Christian faith.
LISBON, Portugal - Pope Benedict XVI recalled Portugal's glorious past as a country of adventurers and missionaries who spread Catholicism around the globe in urging a rediscovery of its Christian heritage Wednesday - a key theme of his message to an increasingly secularized Europe.
LISBON, Portugal - Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday blamed the church's own sins for the clerical abuse scandal - not a campaign mounted by outsiders - and called for profound purification to end what he called the "greatest persecution" the church has endured.
